Divine Epithets in Sumerian Literary Texts and Royal Inscriptions

Informations projet

DESULITROI

N° de convention de subvention: 101065852

DOI

10.3030/101065852

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 18 Juillet 2022

Date de début 1 Octobre 2022

Date de fin 30 Septembre 2024

Financé au titre de

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Coût total

Aucune donnée

Contribution de l’UE

€ 189 687,36

Coordonné par

UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
Germany

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DESULITROI (Divine Epithets in Sumerian Literary Texts and Royal Inscriptions)

Période du rapport: 2022-10-01 au 2024-09-30

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

The principal aim of the project is the creation of an online database of Sumerian divine epithets from selected Sumerian literary texts and royal inscriptions from the Old Sumerian to the Old Babylonian period (circa 2500-1600 BCE).
The overall objective is to have of a digitale tool that allows to easily retrieve information on Sumerian divine epithets. The database gives information which are useful for religious-historical investigations on single Mesopotamian deities as well as on semantic and grammatical investigations of the Sumerian language. In fact, each entry provides an initial analysis of the divine aspect expressed by the epithets as well as their grammatical structure and their basic semantic field. In addition, the database contains information on the function of the passage in which the epithet appears.
A further objective of the project is to provide an analysis of the divine epithets of the warrior god Ninurta using the data collected in the database.

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

The first step has been the creation of the SQL-Database and of the web-based application.

At present, the database contains ca. 309ß epithets from 342 Texts, 98 literary texts and 244 royal inscriptions.

Papers presented in conferences:

1) July 2022 - 66. Assyriological International Conference (Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale – RAI) in Mainz

“Online Database of Divine Epithets in Sumerian Literary Texts and Royal Inscriptions”

2) July 2023 – 68. RAI (Leiden)

“Divine epithets and their context. Digital analysis of Sumerian divine epithets”.

3) Juni 2024 - Götterepitheta und Götterbezeichnungen in der Antike (Interdisciplinary workshop in Leipzig organized by the PI)

“The Online Database of Sumerian Divine Epithets”.

4) July 2023 - 69. RAI (Leiden) with the paper

“Digital analysis of Sumerian divine Epithets. Ninurta’s epithets in Sumerian texts”

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

The database is the first systematic collection of Sumerian divine epithets. So the potential impact will be relevant since there is no other comparable tool in the field of assyriology.

Electronic Database of Sumerian Divine Epithets (Front end)